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Ancient Tibetan medicine recognizes 3 basic types of illness, the root causes of which are the conflicting emotions: aggression, passion, and ignorance. Ignorance generates many different negative states of mind such as desire, hatred, jealousy, and pride. Such destructive emotions drive our mental health, and our bad mental health contributes to our everyday suffering.

“The principal cause of illness is the 3 poisons – aversion, attachment, and delusion. The reason we call the Bhaisajyaguru by this name is that while physical illnesses can be mended and cured by worldly physicians, the main cause needs some kind of special or even supreme medicine.”

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His Holiness the Karmapa continued – ”It is never said that practice of dharma can cure all physical illness or solve all of one’s problems.

But while many physical illnesses can be treated and others cannot, we at least perceive physical illness as such. However, we mostly fail to recognize our fundamental mental illness, the 3 poisons of aversion, attachment, and delusion, as illnesses. Therefore, one function of the Bhaisajyaguru’s powerful teachings is to point out that these are a kind of disease.” – His Holiness the Karmapa.

Medicine Buddha practice:

„Visualize Bhaisajyaguru on the crown of your head or in front of you. Nectar beams emit from the Buddha and enter your own mind and body like water. It pushes away all the dirty things, like pouring healing water into a glass pipe; all the dirty water flows out the top.

All the disease, spirit harm, obstacles, hindrances, and negative karma are completely purified.

Also, think that all sentient beings are in your heart on a moon disc, specifically people who have cancer. Think that the nectar is purifying the 4 things (disease, spirit harm, negative karma, and obstacles). All are purified, including your disease.

If you are doing this spiritual practice for someone else, visualize is the same except that you visualize the Buddha above their heads.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s quote.